Before I left for vacation back in December, I was going strong with my excitement for my New York City series. Going out and about, doing things, practicing photos with my camera. Feeling a bit sad that the list of things I wanted to do was longer than the time I had before leaving for vacation.
Now I am back and making plans of things to do and see. I began feeling that without Christmas type of stuff, NYC is kind of boring to me.
I don’t know if it is because I am home and mopey that I am finding myself already bored without having left my apartment one time. Or if it is because outside of “ooh pretty” I just don’t care for the things that are available to me. Tourist attractions are not my thing. I am just far less excited to continue getting out of my apartment and behind a camera. I am much more interested in booking travel to places that are not NYC.
I started going nuts and booking excursions for my Alaska cruise, but that is not until May.
I need to find things to do to keep up my mental health. I don’t know that I want to keep going to cute restaurants. Sure it is fun but my brain is screaming “Eat out once a week or take a lay down flight to China, you can only pick one!”
Maybe I will start reviewing pizza places for $5 a pop rather than French toast at $50 a pop. But I don’t want to be a food blog.
Me: What are you doing?
Me: Writing a blog post?
Me: No, you are whining about living in the world’s greatest city and being bored. Maybe you are boring.
Me: Maybe I am boring because I am bored?
Me: THEN GO OUTSIDE
Me: Fair enough
So I got my ass into gear and started looking for things to do in New York City. I signed up for a second photography class, and then found a bunch more that I am interested in. All will come with homework so hopefully that will perk me up. I also rented THIS CAMERA LENS that I want to buy so that should also get me excited when I get to try it out. Consciously putting a stop to the madness that is me buying lenses and finding out after I purchase them that they are not exactly what I wanted.
I made a bunch of plans to take my rented lens to.
Once I started booking fun things to do, I perked right back up. I found myself booking a million things and getting excited. Then I upped the ante and booked a creative writing course. Maybe NYC isn’t boring after all! I went from “Woe is me I am so bored” to “Holy shit, look at all the fun things I put on my calendar” in like 7 seconds.
I found a website HERE designed as the website url says, to get you to do more stuff. You sign up and get “free” tickets (Membership costs $5/month so not really free) for things. My first tickets are for a comedy show. I am down to leave my house for this. I am also kind of excited to see what other stuff they get me to leave my home for in the future.
I also want to purchase a City Pass to do all the touristy things.
Me: Didn’t you just say 5 minutes ago touristy things were boring?
Me: Yes but when I started making plans, I perked back up and everything became exciting!
Me: I find your mood swings exhausting. One minute “I am bored” and literally the next “Oh my god I have so many fun things booked!!!!!”
Me: Totally fair
I thought I would spend this past weekend catching up on sleep as I just returned home from six weeks of travel. But then going through all the things, I decided to go outside my apartment.
There was a double header at Javits Center this weekend. AKC Meet the Breeds and the Travel Adventure Show in the same place what? I get to meet dogs AND go to a Travel Adventure show? That has a seminar on travel photography and RICK STEVES is also speaking?!
I love Rick Steves! I own so many of his guides and DVDs. His guide books were my bible when I started traveling in Europe. They are so easy to follow. I learned a lot from him.
And of course, dogs. SO MANY DOGS.
I planned to visit The Edge but the weather was awful so I am saving it for another day. I did stop at B&K photo to caress THIS camera lens. I am not sure why they allowed me to do so but they did. And then encouraged me to purchase it. I wish.